I'm new to all this, to the game and to the community and damn, four days in and already, I can see results - nothing significant yet; noone's hopped into my bed yet, but I have seen results nonetheless.

Who am I?

I'm a college student majoring in biology and genetics, which is not particularly a field of industry where women are plentiful. As a result, I hadn't a reason (till now) to care much about my appearance and physical fitness; a body of a classical Greek hero, I do not have...yet.

My influences are Neil Strauss's the game, which introduced me to the field. This was followed by the works of other individuals. Some game related, like Sascha's Daygame and the 21 convention, and others more life and success oriented; amongst these, are Warren Buffet's Intelligent Investor, Dale Carnegie's 7 Ways. Not to mention the classics - in particular, Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's Art of War.

I don't particular believe in canned material, pick up lines and routines and thus, I decided to focus on the natural game; daygame in particular.

Theory is one thing, and practice is another. If I cannot apply what I have read to life, then I have failed and am no better than a 40 year old basement dweller.

Short Term Objectives: My December Challenges
1. Start Investing!!! Top Priority!!!
2. Pick up basic Chinese as a second language. Important for business, especially with China's economic power.
3. Do the Newbie Mission!!! As many times as it takes to immunize myself to AA.
4. Establish regular workouts.

Mid Term Objectives: My 2014 Challenges
1. Social Network Reinforcement.
2. Get a six-pack. I've dreamed it, now to achieve it.
3. Get laid - multiple times with beautiful ladies.

There you have it. I'll add more when I think them up.

Day 1 Newbie Challenge Coming up...

I'm glad i opened this thread! You are where i were like a week or two ago!
I'm also just started out with natural daygame, i study at collage in the field of IT and there is NO girls there either!
I also started to go to the gym recently!

I'll try to give you some advice from my short journey:
Dont think too much, just do it!
Dont get stuck in one place, try different places until you find one that you like, same goes for time during the day. I found that there are few girls walking alone after four here.
I started out with the newbie mission, but it didnt work out very good for me! I had a hard time to get eye contact and so on. So i gave up and decided to go for approaches right away, at first only to give a compliment and then leave.
You have to get into the right state, i think you need interaction for that, i started to talk to a girl in the subway for example, that helped alot.
2 days ago was the first day i had real success, i approached maybe 10 girls and overall was very social!
Before that i had atleast one or two days where i was wondering around for hours without any approaches or anything. Important to do something fast when u start out, the longer you wait the more painful it becomes.

I have a journal aswell, you might find some good stuff there, there is some pros writing sometimes afc-climbing-the-ladder-vt171914.html

If you'd like, we can change SPAM or something and help each other!

The Newbie Missions 1 & 2

To date, I have done the newbie mission twice, both at unusual locations. Though that's not to say I stopped at forcing myself to greet - I went as far as I could go. These occurred in successive days, in the sweaty tropical country of Singapore, a country where the frigid demeanor of the notoriously white-fevered girls grows exponentially with the heat and humidity.

Location I : Postgraduate Medicine Seminar (In which I very nearly got sat down by Chris Hansen)

So I went to a postgrad med seminar ( just to check my options) at the recommendation of my academic mentor. It was a long and involved affair and I'll spare you the details of the seminar and get to the meat of the matter - the newbie mission and and my epic-chris-hansen-why-don't-you-take-a-seat-fail.

So, I go about the place as bravely as I can manage, which is to say, not very brave at all. I'm feeling very self conscious, but I press on nonetheless. I put a smile on my face, even though I'm not feeling the same way inside. The first break comes and I get my chance to mingle. At this point, I'm tired and groggy and I desperately want a nap, but I soldier on anyway, fight down my reservations and say 'hi' (so hardcore) to everyone I meet. Indians, Chinese, Caucasian, the young and the old...

First up was a chinese girl, dressed in skirt, blouse and cardigan. She was rather short, and had a cute little overbite though I wouldn't say she would be beautiful. I manged to get her name, and start a conversation for about 5 minutes, and we talked about the obvious, what each of us were doing there and such - we petered out soon after and I left to mingle. For the next half hour or so, I talked to many other people, though nothing more than getting a name and social niceties.

Now here comes the problem. I found a girl who seemed more receptive to my attentions than others. We manged to strike up a conversation and I even got her laughing along ( do note that that at this point, I could not tell you how I got her approval). I did not get as far as an instant date, or a number close, but got many IOIs? (This is disputed, in hindsight, I had no idea). She was a decent looking thing, with medium length hair and nicely geeky glasses. She was tall, however, almost as tall as I was, but rather skinny - or slender I would say. Needless to say, I was hoping to press on for a date.

Then, during the next talk, the speaker asked for a show of hands : "Anyone here from Secondary School?" (The Singapore Equivalent of Middle School - which meant the cute little thing I was flirting with just so happened to be a under-aged little thing. Alarm bells went off in my head, as if the Luftwaffe were bombing the neural streets.

Abort! ABORT!

At that point, I was too shaken to listen to rest of the talk and effectively out of the game - for the day at least. I did nothing else.


Location II: Local Community Party - Which turned out to be some sort of cosplay event. (In which I threw my game off whilst trying not to laugh my ass off.)

Recovered and recuperated from the previous day's events, I went to a local party at a community center at the invitation of a friend who conveniently didn't bother showing up. The weather was horrible and there was a constant downpour, but I thought, why not? Time to mingle - and continue the Newbie Mission.

What I did not expect was the 'party' to be a cosplay party. For those not into these things, cosplay is the act of wearing costumes to imitate one's favorite movie or cartoon character. Needless to say, this right of expression is easily abused. Imagine a sea of powdery made up faces and people squeezing into costumes several sizes too small for them. Though, it must be noted that Asians, are fastidious about hygiene so it wasn't all bad. In fact, there were even some decent looking girls and guys in the throng, though I can not say if they were cosplayers or staff hired by the community event planners.

First up a chubby girl, though not fat. Fleshy and voluptuous, but not fat - somehow, this one was one of the few who could say "I'm big boned, not fat" and I would believe it. And unlike most Asian girls, this one had quite a rack, and she was not using pads. I know this because she was dressed up as some sort of anime girl stripper thing that let me appreciate her breasts to a great degree. I approached and began the newbie mission, saying "hi" while trying not to leer openly.

I got the 'hi's in and we manged to get a rudiments of a conversation, though it was obvious from the start that she wasn't very much into it. In fact, she was more interested in letting other people take photos of her. The conversation died rather quickly afterwards - especially once I noted with laughter, that her make up had began to run.

Te rest of the event passed by and I talked to as many people as I could, but such is the nature of these events that any person I might find worth talking to would invariably surrounded by twats snapping photos. Not a total loss I did discover a little more about myself and got my resolve a little more reinforced.

I'm not much into cosplay, and while I won't waste time and money on costumes A part of me wouldn't mind if a girl dressed up for bed XD. (But that's getting ahead of myself.) The main thing was that I had gotten used (somewhat) to a crowded environment, as different from a genetics lab as night and day. Now, all I can do is reinforce this point, before it fades.

The Sticking Points

1. Heaven or Hell, Let's Rock - Fearing neither success nor failure, I must reinforce my resolve and take the plunge. If I don't open, I don't close. Simple as that.

2. Subtly Age Check before I go in for the open (and close). Young is fine and dandy, but under-aged is most assuredly not.

3. Do MORE! Quantity is a Quality in itself, and at this point, the best way to improve is to do as many opens as possible.

4. Transition from the Newbie Mission. The Mission is the first step. A good start, but a single step a journey does not make.

5. Get a JOB! HIPPIE!!! Self Explanatory.


Strikefast, out. Peace.

In Field Failures! Natural Game Blowouts!
All part of the Learning Process??? I certainly hope so!

In Field Week 1
A Summary

What a week it's been. Where should I start?

Graduating from the newbie mission to actual approaches is quite the leap in difficulty. Everything seems to the against you - the crowds seem to stare at you disapprovingly, the girl seems to swell into some monstrous obstacle that cannot be surmounted and you yourself seem smaller and more insignificant by the second. It's a heady and terrible feeling - strong enough to make someone give up for good, rather than face the terror that is approach ever again. The Newbie Mission is a riverside cruise in comparison.

Phase 1, Failing Had at Building Comfort.

I'll generalize here, especially since I've approached 10+ girls over the course of the week. A good accomplishment, but nothing to be overly proud of - especially since I cannot get my foot in the door, so to speak. Needless to say, all, my approaches have gone nowhere so far.

Generally, with my daygame, I tend to do a direct approach in the street, or in shopping centers. I'm usually dressed casually, in jeans and polos, or causal short sleeved shirts, never t-shirts and Bermudas. After this, I usually open with a "hi" and do my damned best to smile.

After which, she'll flinch and avoid eye contact.

Not a good start at all.

I'll be refining my method and we'll see how things go.

What I plan to do:

Improve posture and physique (for self confidence reasons)
Increase my approaches to 20 / week.
Learn how to do eye contact without being intimidating.

Strikefast, out!

Strikefast's Christmas Natural Game

HB 5.5 Bookworm

I was heading down to the local branch of bookstore to pick up some Christmas presents for the folks. Nothing special, just some fancy stationary and a hardcover. Just business as usual, or so I thought. I hadn't been active lately, forgoing my usual sets of exercise, let alone going out for a round of daygame.

She was 5.5 on my scale. Good mixed looks, though not as good as they could have been. She had a scattering of acne, a little excess chubbiness and one of those perpetually expectant bitchy faces which are pretty much everywhere.

I wasn't doing much else, so I said "Hi"

"Hi?" She replied, in a dismissive manner - as if I were her inferior. Her body language was defensive, arms folded, but her eyes darted downwards when I tried to look into them.

"It's a bit of a queue isn't it?" I asked, trying to build rapport and comfort, especially since she seemed to uncomfortable in my presence (Good or Bad?) Though I note she's not giving any signs of being "creeped out", but remaining impassive instead.

I go for the direct method. "I think you're cute and I just had to talk to you."

To which, she laughs and tells me to go "Fuck off." She then jumped to the neighboring queue and that was the end of it.

Blowout, heh. But I suppose I'm "blooded" now.

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As for myself, I have begun intermittent fasting and an intensive skin-care reigm to improve my acne.

The New Year has come and gone, and what else have I done? Nothing.

The ultimate cock block than my Mum is has come to stay for the holidays.

Still, there is no excuse for not improving myself.

1. I've picked up intermittent fasting, on a 16 hour fast, 8 hour intake cycle.
2. I've gotten into the habit of early morning sets and reps.
3. I've found a kendo club and will join soon - sweet Japanese girls. Haha.
4. I've cut down my alcohol intake by half.
5. I've gone without a smoke for a month!
6. I've made 7 new buddies who I can say I know fairly well in real life, since I've started.

Though I haven't F-closed yet, I can't say there hasn't been any improvement, and starting down this path has been one of the better decision in my life.